Word: beaton
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...prisoners in concentration camps are worse than slaves. Their treatment is terrible . . indescribable. People are beaton, flogged to death. As average of two men died of harsh treatment every day in the camps I was in. I was fortunate to escape without harm except for over exposure to the rains and cold...
...world of English portraiture may be thought of as a triangle with Mayfairish Photographer Cecil Beaton at one corner, the polished Royal portrait painters at the other, and Augustus John at the apex. Like Poet William Butler Yeats, whom he has often drawn and painted, John is a master technician with an extraordinary, romantic grasp of character. Born at Tenby in 1878 of parents variously described as Welsh or gypsy or both, he entered London's severe Slade School at 5 and quickly became the most brilliant draftsman in a shoal which included Sir John Lavery and the late...
...unreasoning persecution of Jews." While the indignant telegrams began to pile up on his desk, Conde Nast held back the 130,000 copies that had not yet been distributed, scored out the offending legends. But 150,-ooo distributed copies were beyond recall. And of course Mr. Nast demanded Mr. Beaton's resignation as photographer and artist for Vogue, well knowing that after ten years Vogue was losing its highest-priced and most sprightly talent. Third Nast move was to rip out 14 expensive pages of Mr. Beaton's art from the next two issues of Vogue...
...according to a New York Post columnist, turned down by two other magazines, Mr. Beaton flurried about his Waldorf-Astoria studio in a flaming dressing gown, seemingly hard put to provide a reason for how it all came to pass. Nearest he could come was that two months ago he was "completely irritated with Hollywood" after seeing a number of pictures he did not like. It was then he drew the unfortunate sketches, and he said he thought he inserted the slur against Jews subconsciously. Further, Mr. Beaton explained ". . . Silly as it may sound, I had not been aware that...
Walter Winchell, unconvinced, came back: ". . Beaton's subconscious had nothing to do with it ... it was deliberate and known to him. So delighted was he with his little trick that he spread the news among his intimates, gloating of how it had put one over. . . . Naturally, that is how we heard about...